Synonym: demolish, destroy, devastate, mar, ravage, spoil, upset, wreck. Antonym: restore. Similar words: fruit, equinox, cruise, sanguine, recruit, harlequin, altruism, continuing. Meaning: ['rʊɪn] 
n. 1. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction 2. a ruined building 3. the process of becoming dilapidated 4. an event that results in destruction 5. failure that results in a loss of position or reputation 6. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined. v. 1. destroy completely; damage irreparably 2. destroy or cause to fail 3. reduce to bankruptcy 4. reduce to ruins 5. deprive of virginity 6. fall into ruin.
n. 1. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction 2. a ruined building 3. the process of becoming dilapidated 4. an event that results in destruction 5. failure that results in a loss of position or reputation 6. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined. v. 1. destroy completely; damage irreparably 2. destroy or cause to fail 3. reduce to bankruptcy 4. reduce to ruins 5. deprive of virginity 6. fall into ruin. 
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181 We drove out of town on the Dublin road, then swung up a lane, beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin.
182 Milk contaminated Scientists are stepping up tests to find the source of dioxin contamination which has brought financial ruin to two farmers.
183 It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin, such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of.
184 Miles of poverty with modern adobe dwellings either being built or falling into ruin.
185 He was fined $300,000, an amount that would ruin the average householder.
186 It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.
187 I think you carry our ruin in your pocket, Riven, but I can not say how.
188 This is unfortunate because wasps are nasty little critters whose sole aim in life is to ruin picnics and barbecues.
189 This beautiful monastic ruin is set in a deeply wooded valley by the River Rye.
190 One mistake could blow his cover and ruin years of careful work in the North.
191 This ruin is an unfinished structure about twenty feet high which covers more than an acre.
192 In stern parental terms he told Uncle Allen he would ruin his health by drinking coffee.
193 The hall is gone, and in its place only a dark ruin stands, with the silence of death about it.
194 Lord Hanson will not want to ruin a fine track record by acting in haste.
195 Today his dreams for a new society lie in ruin.sentencedict.com/ruin.html
196 Michael Joyce had not suffered financial ruin by his second emigration.
197 A 35-year-old lawyer faces financial ruin resulting from a serious mental illness.
198 Don't use harsh soap to wash your face. It will ruin your skin.
199 It is able to build a palace out of a ruin; it is the shaping spirit of your narrative.
200 Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. Rumi 
201 Canceling the tour not only would bankrupt the club, Pascoe said, but also ruin its reputation.
202 They fear scrapping the system could mean ruin for small clubs reliant on the sale of players to survive.
203 The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing.
204 Feast day, September I.. Drunkeness is the ruin of reason.
205 She dissociated herself from her own events, from the ruin of events, and went on without a fare-thee-well.
206 And he had just put the phone down on the only man who could ruin it all for him.
207 In 1685 the castle was burnt by the Duke of Argyll and fell into ruin.
208 He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.
209 Obviously putting prints with stop all over will ruin your dev.
210 Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome, going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain.
More similar words: fruit, equinox, cruise, sanguine, recruit, harlequin, altruism, continuing, intriguing, equinoctial, altruistic, grapefruit, incongruity.